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Haldrik
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 Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:59 pm
RegExpression Help
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I've been reading that reg expression tutorial and so far its been crazy helpful. I'm about about 1/3 through right now though. Anyways, I've been trying to make an expression and could some some help.
Pattern:
Swimming: 15 19% concentrating Scholarship: 55 00% thoughtful
OR
Swimming: 15 19% concentrating
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Scholarship: 55 00% thoughtful Swimming: 15 19% concentrating
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| Swimming:%s%d %d~% [^(mind lock)] |
I've been trying to get both mind lock AND the negation of mind lock. Basically 2 seperate triggers, 1 that triggers on mind lock, and one that triggers off everything else.
Basically the negation works really well, except strangely its negating everything with an M, which makes sense... because of the character by character regex engine. But i though the () would group together the word...
Anyways, I'm pretty sure this is super easy and I'm missing somethign really simple.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks :) |
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Haldrik
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:05 pm
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So I think I figured out a zscript way...
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| Swimming:%s%d %d~% %w{^mind lock} |
But I would be interested in learning how regex does it?
Edit: doesnt work after all. |
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cazador
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:50 pm
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Swimming: 15 19% concentrating Scholarship: 55 00% thoughtful
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Swimming: 15 19% concentrating
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Scholarship: 55 00% thoughtful Swimming: 15 19% concentrating
You could do
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^(?:Scholarship|Swimming): \d{2} \d{2}% (?:concentrating|thoughtful)
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^\S+ \d{2} \d{2}% (?:concentrating|thoughtful)
Or simplist Swimming:
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Edit: To read up more about reg ex. CMUD regex uses perl regex, so you can do a google on "perl regex" and get some nice websites with the regex documentation |
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charneus
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Location: California
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:55 pm
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Personally, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to match. You gave us three examples, but then you talk about "mind lock" which isn't even listed anywhere in your examples. You'll need to be more elaborate in what you're trying to do.
As an aside, you could use:
(?:mind lock)? -> which will match mind lock if it's there, otherwise it'll ignore it. Just a thought. Provide better examples for better instructions.
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Haldrik
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:36 pm
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Ah,
I specifically said I needed something that triggered off the negation of mind lock(hence no mind lock in the examples). I am sorry I wasn't clear enough.
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| I've been trying to get both mind lock AND the negation of mind lock. Basically 2 seperate triggers, 1 that triggers on mind lock, and one that triggers off everything else. |
The examples I gave were just for positioning purposes in case ya needed to know white spaces etc. But there was an example of mind lock in the code section too.
There is about 10 lines of "mind states", anywhere from clear to the last which is mind lock. Instead of listing each individual mind state..
i.e. (?:concentrating|thoughtful|muddled) etc etc etc.
Pattern:
Swimming: 15 19% mind lock (here is your example)
I want the NEGATION of mind lock. I think this way will be a lot more efficient then listing all 10 other choices.
But to he honest, the Negation of Mind should be good enough.
Are we talking something like this (^?:mind lock)?
I'll have to play around a bit more...
And Cazador, I plugged in your examples too. Neither of the regex expressions worked. (I have regEx checked)
Thanks guys. |
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charneus
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:43 pm
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So if mind lock is there, you want to ignore it, but if it's NOT there, you want the trigger to fire?
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Haldrik
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:47 pm
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Nah, I need two triggers.
Trigger on mindlock will do a certain action.
But if its NOT mindlock, so it would be the 9 other stages(i.e. thoughtful/concentrationg) It will do something else.
That help?
Thanks charneus. |
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Haldrik
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:50 pm
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So... I came up with this
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| Swimming:\s+\d+ \d+\% (?:(?!mind lock)(?<!mind lock)) |
What do you think? |
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Vijilante
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:58 pm
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Why use two triggers when you can use an optional portion of the pattern and test it in the script?
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#REGEX {(?:Scholarship|Swimming):\s+\d{2} \d{2}% (mindlock)?} {#IF (%1="") {
#SHOW not mindlocked
} {
#SHOW mindlocked
}} |
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Haldrik
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:06 pm
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Oooo. What a great idea Vijilante. Is that also a lot more efficient?
I just tested it out, its working great. Care to explain a bit about how the %1 part works? Which part of the regex is the %1 coming from?
Thanks a ton :) I always want to be more efficient. I started reading regex stuff so i could learn more about "greedy". Lol. |
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cazador
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:11 pm
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What you could do is trigger at
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^(?:Swimming|Scholarship): \d+ \d+% ($val:\s+)
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the \d+ will let you catch on 1 or more digits,
the ($val:\s+) will store a string into the local variable $val
And in the trigger you can do an something like:
pseudo-code below
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if ($val = 'mindlock')
{ do stuff
}
else
{ do other stuff }
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Then you would only need one trigger and you would have smarts in what the trigger does |
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cazador
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:13 pm
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i typed to slow . .and didn't get my answer done in time .. oh well
the %1 gets captured to anything in the first (), the %2 gets captured in the second (), etc ... note (?:) does not get captured.
If you want to use named variables you can do ($var:pattern) |
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Haldrik
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:28 am
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Nice, thanks guys.
A lot of options and I learned a ton. |
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